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Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix
On Jan 11 09:46, Karl M wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:45:28 +0000
> > From: gchicares
> > Subject: Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix
> >
> > On 2010-01-11 16:16Z, Karl M wrote:
> >>
> >> I just reviewed chapter 3 of the user guide and found no mention of posix=0
> >> as the default for /cygdrive.
> >
> > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
> > | To ease the pain, the /cygdrive path is case-insensitive by default
> > | and you have to use the "posix=1" setting explicitly in /etc/fstab
> > | or /etc/fstab.d/$USER to switch it to case-sensitivity
> >
> Thanks...I missed that.
Nevertheless, it can't hurt to have it in the mount table option
docs as well. I added it to the docs in CVS.
Corinna
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